New children!!!

This has been a busy time for mama Lyn - It seems as if we get new children every other day! I already lost count of how many children have come and gone in the last few months.

Our latest admission is a little 8 year old girl who is the size of a 4 year old. She's on permanent oxygen because of chronic lung disease and has been sick since 2004. We've placed her on ARV's and we will take her to a lung specialist to see what we can do for her. She also loves her food.

We have another little girl who arrived a week ago who is also 8 years old. She is such a sweet little girl. She is from one od the township that we work in. The school principal was the one who saw that she was sick and called the social worker who sent her to us. We will start her on her drugs and when she gets better she will go back to her family.

Look at the difference between the 2 girls they are both 8 years old...

Another cute little girl, she is 2 months old and due for her blood tests to see if she is HIV positive. She was found abandoned in a field the day after she was born.

Church camp!!!

It’s been a weekend of fun for the children. We had 22 children going on the Church camp this year - every year the group gets bigger. When the children got to the camp grounds, the first thing that they did was to take their cardboard boxes and started sliding down the hill. As always, this was the highlight of the camp

Sliding down the hill

A long drive!!

After a long school holiday, the children are back to school. Most of them really enjoyed staying at home and not having to do home work, but some children were getting bored so they were excited when the schools reopened.

Quiet week!!!

It's school holidays, not a lot happened this week...... But some of the children went away to visit Mama Lanie at the farm in Bronkerspruit. The children love to go to the farm because they get to see lots of animals and get to ride on a big tractor.

Some good news!!!

Our little boy is HIV negative so he will be going out for adoption. Please pray that the Social Workers will find good parents for him. It will be sad for some of the mamas when he leaves because they fell in love with him.

Both of the kids just woke up when we took this pictures

We have another cute little girl. She will be a month old on the 30th of June. Once she is 6 weeks old, we will test her to see if she is HIV positive.

Here is one of the children with the trophy that she won from the Holiday Bible Club

All the children are on school holiday. It’s been really an exciting week for them as they get to sleep a little bit later in the morning. The children have been attending the Wychwood Baptist Church’s Holiday Bible Club, where they teach the children bible verses and songs and play games with them. Every day when they come home they teach me the bible verse and sing the songs they learnt that day. Some of our children have won prizes for memorizing the Bible verses.

Please continue to pray for them that they will hide the word of God in their hearts, not just know it their heads.

The children were blessed!!!

The children were blessed last weekend…. Thank you to KPMG

KPMG is one of our long term sponsors: The company does our audit free of charge every year – it’s wonderful for us to have an internationally recognized Audit company sign off our Financial Statements. Over and above this, the employees contribute monthly from their personal salaries – this money is used to buy the monthly groceries for our homes.

If that isn’t enough, twice a year, at Christmas and mid year, KPMG hosts an outing for all the children. This year they took the children to the Fire Station - each child was given a red T-shirt to fit the theme – then they returned to the McAlphine home for a delicious lunch with treats and ice cream to follow. They also hired a jumping castle which helped to get rid of some of the pent up energy, but what the children enjoyed most was the facing painting and playing soccer with the KPMG staff.

Thank you again to all our sponsors.

3 new babies!!

We have 3 new babies!

We’re inundated with new babies at the moment. We have received 3 new born babies who were abandoned at the hospital - the 2 girl didn’t even have names. Once they arrive (if they are 6 weeks or older) they are tested for the HIV virus. The two little girls are both negative so they will be going out for adoption. We are waiting for the little boy’s results.


The little 11 month old boy who came to us a month ago is also HIV negative and he is going out to foster parents because his grandmother will not release him for adoption. We are very pleased as he was brought to us because he was ill, so we thought he would be positive.

Items for Praise:

Our 78 Senator Road house needed painting badly – the front wall looked the worse, with the paint actually peeling off - the painter thought we had already started scraping the wall in preparation for painting! Thanks to Samancor Manganese (BHP) for donating the money for the paint and also to Panache Paints for providing their labour for free...

Our front wall before

After

An update on one of our patients!!

2 years ago when this little girl came to us we thought that she wouldn’t live – she was 5 years old and weighed about 9 kg when she came to us because the hospital had sent her home to die. We treated the HIV related illnesses and, once she was strong enough, we started her on her ARV drugs and monitored her closely. She did so well on her drugs that, 8 months later, she was well enough to go back home to her grandmother, weighing 20 kg.

A picture of her in her school uniform

With her grandmother

It’s been almost a year since she went back home and she is doing extremely well so we thought we’d give you an update. She now weighs 25.9 kg and started Primary school this year. She loves being home with her grandmother and her brother!